ITALIAN RESENTMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 29 November 1935, Page 7

ITALIAN RESENTMENT

PROPOSED OIL EMBARGO SERIOLS RETALIATORY MEASURES | [By Telesraph—Press Association—Copyright] j Received Nov. 28, 11.30 p.m. YX)XDON, Nov. 28. The Times’ Rome correspondent savs: It is announced that owing to the uncertainty introduced in the general political situation } r the proposed oil embargo, the Government has ordered certain unspecified troop movements and has also suspended the three months’ leave for 1000,000 soldiers a« cabled on November 21. Jt is impossible at present to gauge the weight of this obviously important announcement, which is variously interpreted, some* declaring the Government apparen.ly intends to move up troops to- , wards the Egyptian frontier, and : others that it has a wider importl anre and it is possible that it refers to contemplated troop movements along Italy’s northern frontiers. In any case, the announcement is undoubtedly a warning how seriously the Government regards the proposed embargo. which has created the gravest anxiety and preoccupation. Italians refuse to admit that such an embargo can rightly be construed as anything but a deliberately hostile act of a military character justifying some form of military retaliation. They are furious at the prospect that fresh sanctions i ■'< v endanger the Abyssinian cam paign. bringing it to a premature and ! inconclusive end. Rather than await such a conclusion they are saying: : ’ • Let us bring down others with us in i our fall if we must fall.” It is impos- • sible to believe that such a deliberate i a t of suicide could ever be contemi plated by the Italian Government, but unquestionably this frame of mind is widespread and its existence has ! Jeeplv impressed many sober foreign onlookers. RELEASE OF ITALIANS FROM AFRICA • Received Nov. 28. 11.30 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 27. i r l he cancellation by Rome of the ' order releasing 100,000 troops from . Africa for agricultural work in Italy I 1 as been attributed to the tension aris- | ing from sanctions, but it is more likely that it has been necessitated by : the growing gravity of the Abyssinian ! situation. General De Bono greeted General I Badoglio at Massawa and had a long, cordial conversation witji him prior to i General Badoglio taking over the camI paign on November 28.